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Tuesday 28 February 2017

Bill Gates Explains Who Copied Whom in the Microsoft vs. Apple Saga

Source: news.softpedia.com --- Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates participated in a new reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session a few hours ago, providing some comments on a wide variety of topics, including philanthropy, technology, and politics. One of the most interesting topics covered by Bill Gates was the Microsoft vs. Apple saga that concerns the graphical user interface which has the two technology giants put against each other in a matter of who copied whom to create the way their operating systems looked like in their early days. Bill Gates explained in his typical way, trying not to upset anyone, but also to shed some light in this, pointing out that the graphical interface was actually created by Xerox, so both Apple and Microsoft kind of copied it from them. “The main ‘copying’ that went on relative to Steve and me is that we ... ( read more ) ...



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